A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an eight-year-long sextortion scheme.

Pathmanathan was sentenced on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg in a case highlighting the dangers of online child exploitation.

Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, was sentenced Wednesday after he targeted girls and boys “as young as six, and subjected them to horrors no child should ever experience,” a U.S.…